[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17115: Publishing an empty post results in success

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#17115: Publishing an empty post results in success
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 Reporter:  kawauso         |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |
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Changes (by trepmal):

 * cc: trepmal@… (added)
 * keywords:  has-patch => needs-patch


Comment:

 Two primary issues I see with the JS method:

 1. Prematurely enables the update button if a non-crucial (title, content,
 excerpt) element is changed. For example, custom fields. (Mentioned in my
 dupe ticket #22483)
 2. Doesn't enable the button if only a featured image is added

 I suspect there are also accessibility issues with a button that can only
 be used after being enabled (undisabled?) via javascript - but that is far
 from any area of expertise I may have.

 The root of the problem seems to come from !WordPress not allowing new
 posts without a title, content, and excerpt
 (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/post.php#L2701).

 While it may be correct for !WordPress to not allow ''publishing'' a post
 without title/content, I think draft posts still need to be allowed.
 Someone may very well want to first upload and nice featured image and
 preview the post before adding anything else, and they cannot currently do
 so.

 I'm not sure of the best way to go about patching this, but I'm going to
 tinker around and see what I can put together that makes any kind of sense
 to the user.

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